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Friday, May 20, 2011

‎Formation of States in India in choronological order

1901: North-West Frontier Area (not to be confused with North Western Provinces) split from Punjab.

1902: Name of North Western Provinces and Oudh changed to United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

1902-10-01: Berar merged with Central Provinces to form Central Provinces and Berar.

1905-10-16: Bengal and Assam provinces reorganized into Eastern Bengal and Assam province and West Bengal province.

1910: Native state of Benares formed by merging a number of smaller fiefs.

1911-12-12: 1905 partition of Bengal was nullified.

1912-10-01: Delhi province split from Punjab; Indian capital moved from Calcutta to Delhi.

1912: Bihar and Orissa province split from Bengal.

1931-02-10: New Delhi officially replaced Delhi as capital.

1932: Aden province split from Bombay presidency.

1935: Name of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh changed to United Provinces.

1936-04-01: Orissa province formed from parts of Bihar and Orissa province, Central Provinces and Berar province, and Madras presidency; remaining part of Bihar and Orissa renamed Bihar; status of Sind division of Bombay presidency changed to province.

1947-08-15: Indian independence. The British provinces became part of India immediately. The native states and agencies became effectively independent. Some of them were allowed to decide whether to accede to (merge with) India or Pakistan. Others combined to form new states in the Indian Union, or merged directly with existing provinces. The process was essentially complete when the new Constitution took effect, less than 2 1/2 years later. On this date, Bengal split into West Bengal (India) and East Pakistan; Punjab split into East Punjab (India) and West Punjab (Pakistan); the presidency of Bombay, which had consisted of Bombay and Sind provinces, split, with Sind going to Pakistan; Banaras, Rampur, and Tehri-Garhwal states merged with United Provinces; Central Provinces and Berar became Madhya Pradesh.

1947-10-26: Jammu and Kashmir state became part of India by the signing of the Instrument of Accession. However, Pakistani fighters invaded the area, bringing about a de facto partition which has been in dispute ever since.

1947-11-08: India annexed the native states of Junagadh and Manavadar to Rajputana, even though they had acceded to Pakistan.

1948: Native states merged to form seven unions: Greater Rajasthan (corresponding to an area called Rajputana before independence), Madhya Bharat (also called the Malwa Union), Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU for short), Saurashtra (also called the United State of Kathiawar), Travancore-Cochin, United Deccan State, and Vindhya Pradesh.

1948: 15 native states merged with Madhya Pradesh.

1948: Native states of Banganapalle and Pudukottai merged with Madras state.

1948: 174 native states merged with Bombay, including Baroda, Cambay, Idar, Janjira, Kolhapur, Palanpur, Radhanpur, Rajpipla, Sirohi, and the states of the United Deccan State.

1948: Native states of Dujana, Loharu, and Pataudi merged with East Punjab.

1948-04-15: Himachal Pradesh state formed from 30 former Hill States, including Chamba, Mandi, Nahan, Sirmur, and Suket.

1948-05: Native states of Saraikela and Kharsawan merged with Bihar.

1949-04-01: Native state of Sandar merged with Madras state.

1949-08-01: 24 former native states merged with Orissa.

1949-10-15: Tripura merged with India as a centrally administered area.

1949-10-15: Manipur merged with India as a union territory.

1950-01-01: Cooch Behar state merged with West Bengal.

1950-01-24: Name of United Provinces changed to Uttar Pradesh.

1950-01-26: The Constitution took effect. The divisions of India were classified as follows: nine Part A states, formerly governors' provinces; eight Part B states, formerly native states or groups of states; ten Part C states, formerly chief commissioners' provinces; and two Part D territories. Name of East Punjab state changed to Punjab (India). Greater Rajasthan union became Rajasthan state.

1950-05-02: Chandernagore transferred from French possession to India.

1950-12-05: Sikkim became an Indian protectorate.

1951: Territory in Assam around Dewangiri ceded to Bhutan.

1953-10-07: Capital of Punjab moved to the new city of Chandigarh.

1953-10-01: Andhra Part A state split from Madras.

1954: Bilaspur state merged with Himachal Pradesh.

1954-10-02: Chandernagore merged with West Bengal.

1956: Capital of Hyderabad moved from Kurnool to Hyderabad.

1956-05-28: France ceded Pondicherry to India as a union territory.

1956-09-01: Status of Tripura changed from centrally administered area to union territory.

1956-11-01: States Reorganization Act took effect. The distinction among Part A, B, and C states was abolished. States were reorganized largely on linguistic lines. Andhra Pradesh state formed by merging Andhra with part of Hyderabad. Bombay state formed by merging Kutch, Saurashtra union, and part of former Bombay state. Status of Delhi and Himachal Pradesh changed from states to union territories. Kerala state formed by merging most of Travancore-Cochin union and part of Madras. Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands union territory split from Madras. Madhya Pradesh state formed by merging Bhopal and Vindhya Pradesh union, all of Madhya Bharat union but one exclave, most of former Madhya Pradesh, and an exclave of Rajasthan. Madras state lost large areas to other states, but gained part of Travancore-Cochin union. Mysore state formed by merging Coorg and former Mysore states and parts of Bombay, Hyderabad, and Madras states. Punjab state formed by merging Patiala and East Punjab States Union and former Punjab. Rajasthan state gained Ajmer state and small parts of Bombay and Madhya Bharat union, and lost an exclave to Madhya Pradesh. 8,177 sq. km. transferred from Bihar state to West Bengal.

1957-12-01: Naga Hills-Tuensang Area split from Assam as a centrally administered area.

1960-04-01: Madras state ceded 573 sq. km. of territory to Andhra Pradesh in exchange for another territory of 1,062 sq. km.

1960-05-01: Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra by the Bombay Reorganization Act. Maharashtra also incorporated part of Madhya Pradesh and all that remained of Hyderabad state.

1961-08-11: Dadra and Nagar Haveli, formerly a Portuguese colony and independent since 1954-07, merged with India as a union territory.

1961-12-20: Portuguese India (India Portuguesa, later called Estado da India) annexed by India and became the territory of Goa, Daman and Diu.

1966-11-01: By the Punjab Reorganization Act, Punjab state split into a smaller Punjab state, a new Haryana state and Chandigarh union territory, and a section which merged with Himachal Pradesh. Chandigarh, formerly capital of Punjab, became joint capital of Punjab and Haryana states and its own union territory.

1972-01-20: Arunachal Pradesh union territory, Meghalaya state, and Mizoram union territory split from Assam; capital of Assam moved from Shillong to Dispur. Before the split, Arunachal Pradesh had been the North East Frontier Agency, and Mizoram had been the Lushai Hills district.

1972-01-21: Status of Manipur and Tripura changed from union territories to states.

1972-12-17: A new line of control between India and Pakistan in the area of Jammu and Kashmir took effect.

1973-11-01: Name of Mysore state changed to Karnataka; name of Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands union territory changed to Lakshadweep.

1974-05-27: Capital of Arunachal Pradesh moved from Shillong (in Meghalaya) to Itanagar.

1975-04-26: Status of Sikkim changed from protectorate to state.

1985-07-24: By the Punjab Accord, Chandigarh union territory would eventually merge with Punjab state. This has not yet been carried out, but it remains a live issue.

1992-02-01: Official name of Delhi union territory changed to National Capital Territory.

1996: Name of the capital of Tamil Nadu state changed from Madras to Chennai; name of the capital of Maharashtra state changed from Bombay to Mumbai.
~1996: Name of the capital of Himachal Pradesh state changed from Simla to Shimla; name of the capital of Kerala state changed from Trivandrum to Thiruvananthapuram.

1999-07-20: Assembly of West Bengal resolved to change the name of the state to Bangla, but this change doesn't take effect until passed by Indian Parliament.

8 comments:

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In 1774 British put Sarkar Tirhut(Darbhanga raj) under newly made Patna Revenue Council and since then Mithila is under Bihar(though there were a number pf other areas under different principalities north of Ganga and east of Gandak other than Darbhnaga raj which all comprise Mithila which all came under bihar graduaaly.Darbhanga Raj had areas south of Ganga also (eg Sultanganj, Haveli Khadagpur etc. where a hospital was built by Raja Laxmishwar Singh)

Please look into the statement "In 1956, Capital of Hyderabad moved from Kurnool to Hyderabad".Hyderabad was the capital of Hyderabad state and Kurnool was the capital of 'Andra state' (don't confuse it with 'Andra pradesh', both are different).In 1956, both states are merged and 'Andra Pradesh' established with Hyderabad as the capital city.There is no movement or shifting of capital city from Kurnool to Hyderabad because Andra Pradesh was not existed prior to 1956 and Andra state is different from Andra Pradesh.Please check the details once again and if correct, please rectify it.

Yes ur right but the thing is that in 1953-56 Andhra state had a capital Kurnool after the merging of telugu speaking Area of Hyderabad state with Andhra where the former had Hyderabad as Capital. Due to the agreement between the Andhra state leaders and present Telangana leaders the agreed the capital to AP which formed by this agreement between them should be HYDERABAD.so the capital of AP became Hyserabad. The area having present AP had Kurnool. As there is no capital status to the Kurnool after 1956 this can be called the capital of ANDHRA shifted to HYDERABAD